Community Nurse - Essex

Band 5 - Community Nurses

We are seeking motivated and dynamic, caring and passionate Band 5 Community Nurses to work within the Integrated Care teams In Essex to cover three main areas: 1. Basildon and Wickford; 2. Brentwood and Billericay; 3. Thurrock.

If you have a preferred locality, please state in your supporting statement.

Come and work for our Integrated Care Teams in Essex, a great location having mixed rural and urban areas. On your days off you may wish to visit nearby seaside locations, a host of country parks or take advantage of easy access to London with world class entertainment, restaurants and cultural venues. The cost of rental and purchase of property is lower than London.

NELFT are committed to provide a working environment that promotes Staff Health and Wellbeing encouraging staff to engage in a wide range of different activities to support this.

The Integrated Care Teams are forward-thinking and innovative services that are community based. Teams work in a fully integrated way, with physiotherapists, occupational therapists, nurses, community matrons and care co-ordinators all working side by side to ensure an integrated and holistic approach to the care of people accessing our service.

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Main duties of the job

The post holder will be a Registered Nurse with experience of working in the NHS. Community experience is desirable but not essential. We welcome applications from student nurses approaching the end of their training! The post holder will be responsible for patients allocated to them and will assess, manage, plan and deliver care.

The post holder will support their peers and senior nursing staff and be an effective team member whilst working on their own initiative. They will supervise pre-registration students and band 4 nursing assistants/assistant practitioners.

As a member of our community multi-disciplinary team, you will work within a primary care network in a neighbourhood team alongside Team Lead, Community matrons, care coordinators, District Nurses, Specialist Nurses, Therapists and Health Care Assistant’s to meet the needs of a complex community delivering patient care supporting early discharge and avoiding admissions to the acute sector.

This includes:

• End of life care,
• Managing the deteriorating patient,
• Complex and simple wound care including VAC therapy and compression therapy,
• Venepuncture,

You will be required to be committed to collaborative working and actively supporting and liaising with other health and social professionals and agencies.

Agile working is encouraged and promoted within our teams.

The role will require you to be computer literate as all patients’ records are now electronic.

COVID-19 Vaccination
We continue to encourage all staff to ensure that they have been double vaccinated and received their booster. We recognise that taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, our staff and their families.

Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

High Cost Area Supplement
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 5% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £1,136 and a maximum payment of £1,915 per annum pro rata).

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details on this vacancy.

We can offer the successful candidate:

• Regular clinical and managerial supervision and support
• A programme of In-service training and exciting development opportunities
• Opportunity for service development and audit
• Agile working devices to support community based working
• Childcare support and vouchers